The combination of an iSight and EvoCam is loads of fun for long car trips… The image is a link to a 5MB Quicktime movie of part of the drive.
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Monthly Archives: May 2004
Driving Too Fast
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Online Comic – Order of the Stick
I used to have a whole slew of on-line comic reviews… I should dig them up and post them at some point.
In the meantime, what do you call a Dungeons and Dragons based adventure comic starring a bunch of stick figures? How about “The Order of the Stick!”
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Spoilsport
Well, I hate to break it to the people out there who use Hotmail as an actual valid e-mail address (yes, both of you!), but the spammers have ruined it for everybody. I let things quiet down here for a couple of days and what happens when I come back? Half a dozen spam comments, all with Hotmail.com e-mail addresses. Nothing for it but to add it to the blacklist filter…
Tagged Technical Notes
Strange brain…
Odd thing that occurred to me over the weekend.
Q: How can you tell how old a telephone solicitor is?
A: Count the rings.
Tagged Personal Blather
Drive safe now…
Fun story from driving in the rain on Friday… I was heading in to pick my wife up from work and saw that there was water over Hogback road. I was slowing down to take a better look at things, which seemed to annoy the guy in the SUV behind me. When I stopped before the water’s edge he leaned on his horn and flashed his lights, so I rolled down the window and waved him past.
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Storm Damage
Gesundheit!
Seriously though, this is about two blocks from my place. It didn’t fall on any houses or anything, but it did take out the power lines near it when it fell. Not to mention what it did to the curb…
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Hitting the books
So… A bit quiet around here, yes? I took a couple of use-it-or-lose-it days and rested. Did some work around the house and all. Not as much as I really ought to have, but the lawn is mowed and I’ve made a dent in the horde (that’s my wife’s term for dirty dishes).
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Ann Arbor Homeopathic Hospital Postcard
A charming postcard showing the crown jewels of modern medical education, circa 1915. Homeopathic medicine was still part of the medical curriculum, although it was on the decline. The hospital building itself was nice, light, and airy.
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More bunny fun!
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